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Category Archive: Technology

Making First Impressions: 4 Ready for early test

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My incomplete hypertext is now ready for testing, having added some weblinks to its references.

February 18, 2016 General, Language, Macs, Painting, Technology

One hundred thousand views, and some you might have missed

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To celebrate this milestone, here are some articles which you should find interesting, but may have missed.

February 18, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Should you use a PIN or a password to secure your iPhone?

Which is better – a 6 digit PIN, or a shorter alphanumeric password – for protecting your iPhone?

February 17, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

How long would it take for Apple to break into your iPhone?

Dan Guido’s careful analysis provides the answers that we, and law-enforcement, wanted to know.

February 17, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

How can you tell whether it is a hard drive or an SSD?

Older external hard drives were large, noisy, and required power. New ones are just like SSDs. So how can you tell them apart?

February 16, 2016 Macs, Technology

Making First Impressions: 3 Joining up

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Storyspace here creates one of the beautiful views of paintings that I have seen.

February 15, 2016 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Why rolling updates are bad practice

Automatic updates? No thanks, I need to brace myself for the next set of fresh bugs and problems.

February 15, 2016 Macs, Technology

Known bugs in El Capitan 10.11.3: an incomplete summary

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The list has grown since 10.11.2, with none of the previous bugs being fixed in 10.11.3.

February 14, 2016 Macs, Technology

Making First Impressions: 2 Prototypes and containers

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Creating prototypes for the artist and their works, and making containers to hold those in an organised structure, using Storyspace 3.

February 13, 2016 General, Language, Macs, Technology

How it took 2 days to upgrade my RAID, thanks to a bug in Disk Utility, and tired old HFS+

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Disk Utility has a bug which can waste a lot of time trying to re-partition drives, and HFS+ creaks horribly.

February 13, 2016 Macs, Technology

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